December 14th-17th 2012 :: Theme: You are the Villain
PsychoTherapist is a game where you play a hypnotherapist trying to drive the voices from your head into your patient. Time yourself to the metronome, and spin the watch to match the chaotic patterns as long as you can.
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 58% |
| #185 | Innovation | 3.26 |
| #486 | Audio | 2.03 |
| #524 | Humor | 2.07 |
| #560 | Fun | 2.42 |
| #593 | Overall | 2.58 |
| #646 | Theme | 2.45 |
| #652 | Mood | 2.17 |
| #717 | Graphics | 1.81 |
Comments
It's so hard! Like patting yourself on the head and circling the other hand on stomach at the same time!
I couldn't do it. It was too hard. But fun trying and great idea.
overall really hard to coordinate between the metronome and the clock, couldn't keep it up but might be because i can get pretty jittery.
It was a bit too hard, but I bet if I played a bunch more I would get the hang of it.
Wow - this is really hard. Once I understood what I had to do it was quite fun for a bit. But ultimately I'm just completely lost trying to multi-task this thing.
Nice idea... but I couldn't quite get to grips with it unfortunately. :/
Very difficult and unforgiving. You could've added 3 "lives" that need to be lost before you lose.
you help screen layout made me think I could use cursor key instead of wasd ( which is pretty convenient when you own an azerty keyboard ). I lost a lot of time finding how to play.
The game itself is cool. I think the yellow point is useless, it make the game more difficult instead of helping. Just the green dot with a clock color change or brief 4 dot flash when you finish the sequence would be enough.
+1 for the 3 lives idea :)
I found this quite difficult. Once I understood what I was doing it was better though. A really cool take on the theme.
Interesting concept. Took me a few tries to get what I was really doing, but once it clicked it was alright. Never really got far enough to see how evil I was supposedly being though.
This game is quite difficult. It seems like it has a lot of potential for fun if the difficulty ramped up a bit more slowly or it was a bit more forgiving (like the patient had a meter where he would wake up with too many mess ups). It's frustrating to lose the game immediately when you make one mistake.
Good: Different!
Improve: Hard to get into in the time one have to rate theese things (that is, if im not hooked the first minut i neeed to move on, sorry) =)
Could tick, but not tock. Very unforgiving mechanics, made me want to give up after failing five times. Try a lighter form of negative reinforcement than stopping the game every time the player makes a slight error.
Took me a bit to figure out what was going on, but once I did it was really hard and I only lasted a few ticks. Cool concept, but maybe lessen the difficulty a little bit.
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Took a while to figure out what was going on, but enjoyable and challenging when I got it. Might want to rework the instructions if you continue on this game.